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Any time I get to talk about Agassi and ironically get drawn looking like my favorite contemporary player Rafa is cool with me. Special thanks to Journal de Nîmes for including me in their North American Icons spread which includes the likes of Andy Spade, Alain de Botton, and my homie Ryan Willms of Inventory.

Tenue de Nîmes have decided to dedicate this issue to all of the people in Japan. Tenue de Nîmes will donate all revenues from selling the Journal de Nîmes online and through their Dutch store to Second Harvest Japan.

In honor of a true rebel icon Done To Death has created a limited edition Dennis Hopper T-Shirt. I'm giving away one t-shirt to one of you guys. But if you don't want to risk not winning one they're available for purchase by clicking here.

If ever an artist should be celebrated it's the legend Mr. Dennis Hopper. An amazing combination of style and substance, Hopper wasn't just a beautiful actor but his art is a huge inspiration. I'm always fascinated by those that find new ways to create till the end.

You know the routine... Hit me with your name and active e-mail in the comments section. Follow me on Twitter @JakeDavisFilms and remember no matter what always tell the truth...

It takes a really special type of genius to create new genres and explore musicianship in undiscovered ways. You really have to march to the beat of your own drum. Lee Scratch Perry is one of those innovators. And my guys at Supreme recognize that. So we made a short film on him. This one was a little bit different than what we usually do. It was really about patchworking all this really fantastic footage into a digestable story. We wanted you to feel what Lee is all about in a couple minutes and hopefully learn a little something about him. I certainly did working on this project.

In Lee Scratch Perry's honor of good vibrations I'm giving away a couple of the incredible Supreme posters Shaniqwa Jarvis photographed of him (above). These are not for sale, highly sought after, and so good... You know the routine... Hit me with your name and active e-mail in the comments section. Follow me on Twitter @JakeDavisFilms and remember "you have to turn the evil down, and turn the good up, so that the good will always be over the evil..."

Timing is everything in this life. Sometimes you're too ahead of the curve and it takes a while for the masses to catch up. This is the story of most innovative artists. In the case of the band Death it took nearly 35 years for the rest of the pack to catch up.

Death was punk before punk had a name. Three brothers from Detroit preceded legends like Bad Brains and The Sex Pistols. The band only recorded seven songs in a 1974 session funded by Columbia Records before a disagreement with Clive Davis about a name change. These guys are the definition of hard body. In a celebration of not selling out, artistic integrity, and saying fuck you without the fuck you money here are two burners from their only album ...For The World To See. It was released earlier this year when the demo tape was discovered in one of the member's attic by his son...

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend."

- James Harrison

Terry O'Neill photographs the latter and quite well. His book Legends is epic and I'm seeing it all over town right now. An amazing photographer known for capturing iconic beauty in the most candid and intimate of settings. A great inspiration for style and composition. It's definitely one for the permanent collection...

Beach style is one of the hardest to pull off but somehow Greg Noll figured it out. Whether the jailhouse trunks were a conscious statement or not their legacy cannot be denied. Enough to the point where he was recognizable by just one article of clothing. You can't say that about a lot of icons. His attitude and fearless stee is highly respected in these parts. Here's the cool story of those legendary shorts in the man's words himself...

"Going back to when I was about 13 years old everybody was wearing plain old trunks from JC Penney's or wherever you bought trunks from in those days. I spent a lot of time at the Manhattan Beach Surf Club under the pier. This was at turn of the Grannis era, when surfers were guys like Don James and Doc Ball, educated guys who went to church and didn't swear and were polite. Well I got involved when the whole thing was falling to shit and guys like Dale Velzy and George Kapu got involved. Things turned and went the other way. There was a pretty earthy group of guys at the Manhattan Pier who set the style for the South bay and that effected things all up and down the street.

So what happened at Manhattan Beach is someone like Barney Briggs or Velzy started going to the Salvation Army to buy their clothes, because you could get an overcoat or Army surplus stuff for 25 cents. Well they started buying white sailor pants and cutting them off above the knees and started surfing in them. And that caught on, and pretty soon everyone was doing it. At some point somebody got the idea to see who could live in those cutoff sailor pants the longest, without taking them off or washing them.
There were rules to this deal. You could only drop the shorts to your knees to take a crap, or to your ankles to screw your girlfriend. Otherwise they stayed on and whoever kept them on the longest won.

Anyway these things got to be the standard surf attire for the guys in the South Bay and when some guys started going to Hawaii to surf Makaha they were still wearing their cutoff whites.
On the west side of Oahu in Waianae there was a tailor named M Nii. He and his wife were Japanese or Filipino and they made shorts for the Hawaiian surfers. At the time some guys were wearing Outrigger Canoe Club shorts that had stripes down the side, but those were a big deal to get. You had to know someone or be a part of the club or get them underground somehow.
At some point we started going in there and looking at all the different-colored striping material - red and gold and green and all kinds of colors.
I think it was Billy Ming who first got the idea to go to M Nii to get that colored striping into their white shorts. The gaudier the better. One guy had red and another guy got blue stripes and some guys had trunks that looked like a clown suit.

Well they wore those trunks as hard at Makaha as they did at Manhattan Beach and by the end of the winter they were so worn out, guys would go back to M Nii and get some more custom tailoring done before they went back to the mainland.
Guys were pretty much living in those shorts so they evolved wax pockets and comb pockets and wallet pockets and all this shit.
I went back to California with those white sailor cutoffs customized by M Nii and people really liked them. So the next winter I went back to Hawaii with orders and measurements from my friends and about $350, which was a lot of money back then. I got custom trunks made for myself and friends and the rest is history, you know? I don't know what other guys will tell you but this is all happened when I was 15, so that would have been 1952."

For more on Greg Noll, the cultural and artistic significance of surf check The Art of the Surfboard...

Most inspiring photograph I've seen a long time. And since a picture speaks a thousand words I'll leave it at that. But not before leaving you with just as inspiring a record... It Never Entered My Mind...

“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”

- Audrey Hepburn

I love looking to photographer's portfolios for inspiration and Richard Corman's collection of Icons is no exception. Corman has photographed some of the most celebrated icons, fact and fiction, of our time. It's definitely worth a closer look. I didn't post it but he took a picture of Mike Tyson and Joan Jett air guitaring in front of a white seamless. It's pretty amazing...

The Morrison Hotel Gallery is one of my favorite places in all of New York for music video inspiration. Photography and music share the stage of yesteryear and today. The photographers, artists, and prints they feature are incredibly powerful, emotionally charged, and historically significant. I live nestled in between two of their locations. One on Bowery in the East Village and the other on Prince in Soho. In this day and age it's too easy to be cynical. I could just as easily disregard the current times and wish for a simpler era when Bad Brains rocked CBGB's and rent was $30 on Bleecker Street. But today I'd rather play the role of the tourist instead of the jaded. Maybe these images will inspire you as much as they have me...

If you get a chance to stop by any of their gallery locations you will not be disappointed... Forever timeless...

“Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe... That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music.”

- John Coltrane

Man and his instrument... It doesn't get purer than that. And for you fashion heads... Check Coltrane's jacket, shoes, length of the pant, and lack of socks... A love supreme...